Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
PLETHORA
overplus, plethora, superfluity, embarrassment
(noun) extreme excess; “an embarrassment of riches”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
plethora (plural plethorae or plethoras)
(usually, followed by of) An excessive amount or number; an abundance.
(medicine, archaic) An excess of red blood cells or bodily humours.
Synonyms
• (excess, abundance): glut, myriad, surfeit, superfluity, slew
Anagrams
• Althorpe, traphole, tropheal
Source: Wiktionary
Pleth"o*ra, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. Pleonasm.]
1. Overfullness; especially, excessive fullness of the blood vessels; repletion; that state of the blood vessels or of the system when the blood exceeds a healthy standard in quantity; hyperæmia; -- opposed to anæmia.
2. State of being overfull; excess; superabundance. He labors under a plethora of wit and imagination. Jeffrey.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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